"The work is divided into two main parts: the effects of persuasion in communication; the effects of the specific types of media — The first part concentrates on the effects of strengthening opinions, forming new ones and changing attitudes by communications of the 'persuasive type, as well as the
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problem of the media and their audience — The second part studies in particular the effects of dealing with crime and violence in the various media, the effects of escapism, the exposing of children to TV and the passivity of the audience." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1212, topic code 011, 020)
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"The work deals with the reactions of children and the effects of television upon them. Thus after studying children as an audience, using experimental studies, the authors describe to us the main effects on the child's leisure activities and interests, his marks and learning in school, his way of l
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ife. The importance of crime and violence in television broadcasts is also stressed in a study of children's reactions to these phenomena." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1024, topic code 452)
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"Subjects: Part I: The role of the masses: a new centre of interests for the study of the effects of the mass media; stages in the process of mass communications; norms and systems of the process of persuasion. Part 2: Daily influences in a Middle West community; localisation of the personal influen
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ce; impact of the personal influence; use of the personal influence; technical appendices and notes on research." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1266, topic code 030)
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"This book contains a series of articles by the best authorities — The process of communication; how to gain the attention; how meaning is transferred from one subjective field to another; how attitudes and opinions are formed and changed; how group-membership, role concepts and the social structu
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re relate to these processes." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2081, topic code 010)
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"After considering in an introductory chapter the nature of changes in opinion and the communication of persuasion, as well as the general methods of communication, the authors examine the results of the many researches carried out into changes of attitude and opinion due to communication — They s
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tudy the characteristics of the communicator, the role of motivational factors, the organisation of the arguments used in support of the position, the influence of the group and personal factors, active participation, the retention of opinions — In their conclusions, they consider once more the problems of the communicator, of the communication, of the audience and of the factors of response, as well as the problems of application." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1066, topic code 030)
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"The author investigates the present state of research into the influence of television on the public and especially on young people." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 984, topic code 011, 452)